table i have a dream. my dream is that people lay my daughter, the young people just have a full voice and don't feel targeted because of their race or ethnicity. ah rosters military says some of its forces who been conducting drills ne ukraine's border all returning to their bases early in the kremlin and west. the latest suggests that there is still hope a diplomacy in the ukraine crisis. ah ally, why mon inside this is out. is there a lie from dr. i'll also coming up canada, brings in emergency powers never used before. in an effort to

n protests against coven 19 vaccine bowls and garbage piled up on beaches, livelihood still inwards to mount salt. to typhoon roy swept across ah, russia says some of its troops involved in military drills nay. ukraine are pulling back and returning to their bases after completing the exercises. the drills have been a significant factor in the crisis between russia and ukraine, which along with western nations fear moscow is planning an invasion. on monday, the kremlin suggested diplomacy is still possible in diffusing a stand off. let's go straight to dosage bars lie for us in moscow. so tell us a bit more about these russian forces that are returning to their basis. is it significant? well,

it certainly is. and we've just been hearing from the chief spokesperson of the russian defense ministry. major general igor, punish rankoff who has issued a statement saying that some of russia's western and southern military units will be on their way back to their home bases. upon completing a series of military maneuvers, the major general also went on to say that there are other further units that are finishing up their military drills and will be, i'm going back to their home basis. this is, of course, something we heard from the russian defense minister on monday survey chicago at a meeting with the russian president, vladimir putin said that this was about to take place that the military drills that were ongoing for the past few weeks were coming to an end, and most of the military units that have been dispatched alongside the countries borders will be returning to their home basis. of course, this will be seen as the 1st significant step in the current situation that we're

in and possibly seen as a sign of russia really d escalating the situation and sticking to the word saying that these troop movements were all to carry out these drills and now that they're re basing them as they really are going back to where they were in the beginning and reiterating this country's position that they never really intended to invade ukraine. this was just asked area narrative that was built by the western countries. or perhaps the days and days of diplomacy is leading to something. we have more diplomacy today with the german charles le arriving in rochelle already in russia. we're not a 100 percent. sure yet. at what are we expecting from meetings, between shoals and peyton today? well, the german chancellor will be talking about 3 main things with the russian president 1st and trying to de escalate the current crisis with ukraine. and 2nd on the

agenda, we'll be talking about the security guarantees that russia's looking for when it comes to nato's further expansion. and then the 3rd will be talking about that very important at north street to gas pipeline. that was an $11000000000.00 project that took a russian gas from siberia and transfer it to germany via the sea and not bypassing any specific country. this is a project that was completed in september, but has yet to become operational due to certain restrictions placed on it by the german government. many here accused germany up guy turning this at pipeline into a geopolitical tool. the german chancellor will certainly be discussing this with the russian president. and of course this is not the only meeting that has taken place here to day. the russian foreign minister survey love rob will also is currently meeting with his polish counterpart. the polish foreign minister is in moscow to hold meetings about the current situation and the overseas concerns when

it comes to the current crisis that is ongoing. so there is still very much a diplomatic path that is being pursued by many sides. and this latest announcement by the russian defense ministry will certainly be an important one given on the day that we're having in moscow. the diplomatic push to try and deescalate essentially . okay, thank you for that dosa jibari that 1st live in moscow. we can turn now to step vasa, who's live in penske, which is in western belarus where russia has been holding some of the drills a step. i wonder what you can see where you are, especially in lights of the fact the russia says some of the troops that have been involved in military drills all now being pulled back yes, i maintain that sir. 30 kilometers from the ukrainian border. and this sir, historical town has quite a big population from a ukrainian sir. so there's

a lot of concern here. also at this border about is russian military exercise is happening so near by the bellow, russian authorities have released some locations where these joint drills are still ongoing. but since yesterday i have to say we've been traveling around his region. the southern border of bella rose, whitter ukraine, and it was so very quiet that there was supposed to be exercises air defense, a fight to chat in actions, even bombardments at a place not very far from here. but so far, it's very difficult to see that there is a very large scale military exercise ongoing. meanwhile, of course, we know that the russia is now saying that they have meant a finish. these exercises are finishing up these exercises and are withdrawing troops. we haven't seen any signs of that, but it could mean that definitely these exercises are clothing and it's not much activity here. but people are telling us here and not very optimistic that russian

forces will leave that soon. and are quite worried that the russians are actually using this military exercise as a pretext to basically occupy ballard bruce and have permanent bases here. and that's something that a lot of ballard oceans are definitely not agreeing with. ok many thanks to that step vast and monitoring the situation from pins in west in belarus or before his trip to moscow, the german chancellor of salts was in kiev on monday, reaffirming full support. t crane's president, lauderdale of the lensky later issued an address to the nation, giving a message of unity for the day that some have warned russia will invade. let's go to natasha butler who's lying for us in the key. it took us through what zelinski meant by his announcement yesterday evening will ukrainian president of low dom is lensky?

a gave an address and it was certainly a change of tone from previous days when he had called for comedy, urged people to stop upon a king in this address. he then said that ukrainians should be united and that they were ready to fight. so change of tone from him, perhaps a position where he feels slightly more hard and but you know, it's a very unusual situation here. the mood really does seem to shift almost daily between optimism and pessimism. and when you talk to people in care of itself, they feel as if they themselves really have no idea what's going on. and they just feel all they can do is live their lives day to day. they have been living in the shadow of what they call russian aggression fight years now because of the conflict in the east. you know, i was walking around a little bit earlier and parents were bringing the children to school. teenagers were having coffees outside coffee shops before they went off to their studies. it feels very normal indeed. yet beneath the surface i think there is a bit of

a shift. there is a bit of ish or change. some people are now telling us that they are making contingency plans, making sure the documents are rule up to date, perhaps having a bag ready to take and making some stokes. in fact, in one a service station, the service station manager a told us that the lodge jerry cans that he normally has for fuel have sold out because people are also doing things like stocking up on fuel. interesting stuff. okay, thank you for that. natasha butler. there for us in we have meanwhile, president joe biden has again spoken on the phone with you. k prime minister boris johnson agreeing the window for diplomacy is still open or washington is taking no chances with its diplomatic staff that are based in ukraine. hottie, joe castro reports the u. s. says it decided to close its embassy and key of due to russia's military escalation on a friday and border. an invasion, as we have said,

could begin at any time. should brewton decide to order it. there would be widespread human suffering. americans and ukraine had been told to leave the country, but a core group of us diplomats will remain. they'll work from the city of lou eve, further west from the border with russia. despite the embassies closure, the white house says it remains actively engaged in finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis. the path for diplomacy remains available. if russia chooses to engage constructively. however, we are clear eyed about the prospects of that given the steps russia is taking on the ground in plain sight, president biden says he will not send us troops to defend ukraine in the event of an invasion. but american soldiers are standing by across the border in poland, a member of the nato alliance. real lives will be at risk of ukrainian lives to be sure,

but also russian lives this. this will not be bloodless. this will not be easy. a pentagon spokesman says the u. s. has not concluded that russia's president has decided to invade ukraine, but that an invasion could come with little or no warning. president biden spoke with you, kay's prime minister and discussed reinforcing nato's eastern defences. and the u. s. defense secretary is now headed to belgium, where he will meet with military allies. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington in the knees coming up, remembering the face of american support attribute to the nfl hall of fame coach john madden. ah

hello, welcome to have a look at the international forecast. got the usual rush of showers across much of southeast asia, received some lively rain recently, around the malay peninsula and northern parts of malaysia, excess of 200 millimeters of rain coming through here, or where to weather. we'll just notice way up into the gulf of thailand, we'll see some heavy rain coming in across much of thailand as we go through wednesday and the usual scattering of showers across a good part of malaysia, indonesia still seeing some heavy downpours. we could see some live, he shows 2 across northern parts of australia, but the story really for australia is the heat. we still have some very high temperatures across western parts of australia. perth, still up into the high thirty's, over the next couple of days, shall was there across the law firm. we have got some showers easing over to was at east the side of queensland a notice from where to weather. just coming in to south australia just pushing over towards victoria 30 celsius there for melbourne on wednesday. it does cool off as we go on through the week that re makes his way across victoria tasmania. and it's

grassy, making his way over towards museum, where we will see it tiny, increasingly wet across a south island as we go on through friday. pleasantly warm though, lottie. find a dry for the north island. ah, this feels like representation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by boxing, is my get out to is, is not even just mark is the people around that got to with the story about mom, i was going to take 50 picture to do a don't so bad with you. deep award winning documentary on out his era, hulu.

ah, ah, you're watching out as a reminder, on top stories this, our russia says some of its troops involved in military drills near ukraine all returning to their bases. after completing next the sizes, the drills have been a significant fact and the crisis between russia and ukraine. the german charles smith g to arrive at moscow on the 2nd leg of a diplomatic mission to avert russian military action in ukraine. was the leaders on the kremlin, say, a peaceful solution. still possible. ukraine's president vladimir de lensky has addressed the nation, calling for dave unity on wednesday maps. when some have warned, russia will invade now the u. s. is

offering ukraine a sovereign loan guarantee of all to a $1000000000.00, meaning it will steppin if kia cant make its debt obligations. the u. s. sex your state, antony blink, and says it will help stabilize ukraine's economy, which he says is straining from the tension with russia. germany is also offering a loan of a $170000000.00. as get more less, we can speak to chad. amir nus, thought a rich, he is a professor of your politics at the a sack business school and singapore. he joins us from there. thank you so much for joining us. so how significant is this sovereign loan guarantee offer? thank you for having me. so it is very significant because the country is in dire straits from the economic point of view, they have to spend very much money on defense and to prepare for maybe keep that because the invasion coming from russia. so any money coming from the so welcome to

them. they can difficult be difficult time. stop something such as a mass for the warranty bank. so it is bilaterally different countries, such united states or germany are giving them some money. does it put ukraine in a better position if the country goes to war and how so you clean, he's not going to work in the sense that the green pack, the russian $33.00 visa war, it will be on the defensive war. but even for the defense, the war you need to, you need money, you need food, you need from initial need equipment, et cetera. according to all, the estimates become more than $100.00. tell us and to speech a mass on the other side, on the russian side, on the delivery side. so it means that you have to prepare for it a large scale invasion if this happens. so they need money in order to this,

how badly has ukraine on as economy been impacted by the potential threat of war, which has been ongoing for some time now. so if you're looking at the reports which are coming from from the, again, the population leading to the game. yeah. because on one side, they're afraid that the invasion would happen on the other side. they don't want it to happen. so it means that they want to say, let's say, some kind of normal life with preparation for war. so this is why we have this contradictory estimate which are coming from your saying that your grant is a large country. so they have to defend themselves. i not so sure that russia can have uneasy when they're going well, let's talk about the impact the economic impact on russia as going to war. in particular, if you are, and the u. s. imposed sanctions that they're promised to impose if it does,

how will that impact, how will those sanctions impact russia can it can handle them. so up to now we have the precedent on the injection of a, me, which camp in more than 7 years back. so that time after 2014, they were a sanctions which got been new boys in russia. and we see that they did not produce very much results. so they have big sanctions that can be used for instance, fractions in order to cast off russia from the swift system, the system is permitted thing, the banks under financial transactions. but even at that time, more than 70 years back, russia was saying, if the country is cut off from the smith, it means that it is the 4th and they did not do it. so it means that there were some functions, but the functions were not, i would say you're clear assumptions in the sense that we could destroy the russian

economy. and they're not so sure that the use functions will also destroy the russian economy if, if they're implemented north stream to the russian pipeline is, is also a bargaining chip that could possibly used to hurt russia. to what extent is russia willing to risk losing this pipeline? this is a very important pipeline for them, but it is also a very important pipeline for germany and other countries on germany has been also a think lately, between preserving what the cost for the north being true for engaging in a conflict with russia and the disgust we have seen that the energy prices in europe. how's going up tremendously. so there is a secure supply of gas coming from the region,

the book price coming from russia. it will be very hard to put to this option 5. of course tonight, the states are threatening, no history will not exist, but new, nicer states are not concerned with the northeastern germany and the other countries. and they may have another thing you ok thank you for your analysis cheddar madness. never thought of ich professor j politics at the ethic business school in singapore. thank you. thank you. a soldier has been killed in syria, often explosive voice detonated on their military boss in damascus. state tv says 11 others were injured. another army boss was blown up in the capital in october, killing 14 soldiers to europe here now where the parliament has voted for an early n to a 6 months state of emergency. it was declared in november when rebels from the

northern garage region was threatening to march on the capital of absence retreated and security has improved. in current as prime minister has invoked emergency power is never used before to end protest against coven 19 restrictions. the psycho freedom convoy began as a demonstration against maxine mandates, more than 2 weeks ago and sent spread to other cities and blocked border crossings with the us and fisher courts. the main bridge lincoln, canada to the u. s. is open again, police enforcing a court order ended the 60 blockade by protesters demanding an end to corporate restrictions. they made several arrests and set up barricades to stop it happening again. the protest hit supply chains on both sides of the border. but i say candidates, parliament and or to a protesters are refusing to leave,

even as the local government eases covered restrictions. prime minister just intruder has had enough invoking special emergency measures to confront the protesters. this is not a peaceful protest at the borders. busy in different parts of the country, the blockades are harming our economy and endangering public safety. 980 emergencies act allows the federal government to ensure security during national emergencies. this has never been used. a similar move was last employed in 1970, the prime minister then to those father pierre. the scope of these measures will be time limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportioned. the so called freedom convoy protests began because canadian truckers opposed a vaccine or quarantine mandate for cross border drivers. but it soon became a rallying point for people opposing the to do government. and now it spawns

copycat protest globally. in belgium, demonstrators, there were joined by others from france, holland, and germany, to demand a hold to cover restrictions by europe's governments. the messages leave us alone. we are peaceful. we will leave you alone. we are not accepting any japs any more. and israel, a convoy of trucks drove the main highway from tel aviv to jerusalem, heading for the parliament building. we all support canada and support the truckers con v that went up 2 or 2 and we do hear the same critics of accused the so called freedom convoys of having little popular support. but authorities are aware of the disruption. even small protest can cause and like canada, i know examining what actions are available to keep roads, bridges, and supply lines open. alan fisher, i'll just either washington unvaccinated work as about the age of 15. italy won't

have access to their workplace from tuesday. it's an extension of the governance green pass health certificate, which is required to access most public venues. employees in the private and public sectors will have to show proof of vaccination against coven 19 anyone court working without it could face fines and suspension without pay. thousands of nurses in australia's most popular state, new south wales have walked off the job for the 1st time and nearly a decade and staging a 24 hour strike, demanding better pay and more staffing during the pandemic. the nurses defied a last minute order by the states industrial relations commission to cool off the strike, which it said could put public health in danger. don, for more than a $150.00 hospitals, all taking has been 2 months since typhoon ride, devastated large areas of the central philippines. nearly 10000000 people were

affected by the storm. but at least 2400000 still in need of help. to mil adding dagon has this report from bo whole province, one of the worst hit areas. jessie garcia thought it was just an ordinary typhoon. they said they were by the sea side with their children until the water rose. like a wall. you'll see me, philip, we're not all of a sudden our roofs were blown ally and we had to swim away from the current with our children. it's just terrible that a bunch of us are bright. thankfully, jesse said their house and his boat, which he once used for fishing, is now this choice. this caused so vineyards, in all by is one of the worst. his areas here in the province of ball survivors here tell us some of them were able to salvage a few pieces of whatever is left of their homes. but for what they say when they're not even allowed to rebuild here anymore typhoon why locally known as that that

caused extensive damage in the science and the men in our region. it killed at least $400.00 people and displeased millions more. government officials say the damage is comparable to super type when a young in 2013 the strongest storm on global record. according to the united nations, more than 2000000 people are in dire need of assistance and access to food, shelter and medicine remains limited. hundreds of towns are still without power and boiling water will announce our a hard the folk. there are hardly reese and the there are you still confronting these hardships? but of course, we need all the help we can get considering that the 200000 people about 80000 of thought the lead destroyed homes right now. early in the gym, ours is now homeless. her 15 square meter home was swept away by the storm surge,

nothing is left, she said, and they feel grateful if they are able to eat twice, city. the situation here is repeated many times over. at least 4 other provinces remain in desperate need of aid. there are communities which were already reeling from the economic impact of the pandemic. so typhoon rice, devastation has actually scaled back recovery efforts even further. shemelle alan dog and al jazeera ball province, central philippines, thousands of people of all the face and voice of american football. i gathered at the oakland coliseum in california to pay tribute to john madden, who died at age of 85 in december at stadium where he 1st came to fame out. as there is gabriel, alexander reports on madden's unique legacy that stretched across decades. the book starts now, one man,

an icon to 3 generations of american football fans in 3 different areas, coaching, broadcasting and gaming. that man, john madden, who embodied everything football. he started as a player before his career was cut short due to injury. but older american football fans likely remember john madden when he coached the oakland raiders in the 19 seventy's, his no nonsense attitude, gaining him the loyalty of his players. a super will win. and when he retired, the winning, his coaching nfl history, a coaching career that was capped by an induction into the pro football hall of fame would have satisfied most people. but not john man. most middle aged football fans likely only no. john madden from his 2nd act and what an act it was after coaching mad and spent the next 3 decades in the broadcast booth as a flamboyant analyst, but you can't make yourself one dimensional with over 15 sports emmy awards. he's

widely considered the greatest football analyst ever for his ability to explain the game in simple, yet entertaining terms. john madden was one of the most famous and recognizable people in all of american football. during the season would seem like he would appear everywhere. but one place you would never find john man was at an airport. john madden did not like to fly at all. he was claustrophobic. so he took a bus everywhere around the country and had said, madden cruiser hole on the side of the bus. so everybody knew who was inside and he stopped all the time at small little cafes in order to eat and talk to people and learn what their life was like. he loved it. he loved getting to know people. he was the ultimate man of the people. ha, her football fans, those under 30 years old, probably only know maddened by the video game that bears his name, madden,

and phil. one of the most popular sports video games of all time had sold over a $130000000.00 copies and generated nearly $4000000000.00. john, earl madden, a man who stature is unmatched in a uniquely american sport. gabriel's ando al jazeera new york. ah, this is al jazeera, these, the top stories. russia says some of its troops involved in military drills near ukraine are pulling back on returning to bases after completing exercises. drills have been a significant factor in the crisis between russia and ukraine, which along with western nations faith. moscow is planning an invasion. on monday, the kremlin suggested diplomacy is still possible in diffusing the standoff.